Abstract
Validation is critical to the success of software trustworthiness measurement. A large number of software trustworthiness measures are proposed; however, most of them are not validated from a theory perspective. Therefore, they lack theoretical foundation and will induce unnecessary cost and useless calculation. In this paper, we bring measurement theory into software trustworthiness measurement, construct a source codes oriented software trustworthiness measure based on extensive structure in the measurement theory, and validate the developed measure by use of axiomatic approaches. Compared with some software trustworthiness measures that are already presented, this measure can evaluate software trustworthiness better from a theory perspective.
Highlights
Because of the outstanding problems with software trustworthiness, people pay more and more attention to the research into trustworthy software
On the basis of the module trustworthiness measures described in Definitions 9 and 10, we present an additive software trustworthiness measure based on extensive structure and a nonadditive software trustworthiness measure based on extensive structure
We have presented specifications for the implementations expected by users of the program elements involved in the imperative languages [51]; if you want to use the measures built in this paper to measure the trustworthiness of source codes written in an object-oriented language, you need to propose the specifications for the implementations expected by users of the program elements involved in the corresponding objectoriented language
Summary
Because of the outstanding problems with software trustworthiness, people pay more and more attention to the research into trustworthy software. Measurement theory presents a clear definition of a measure under the assumption of a homomorphism from the empirical world into the numerical world and gives the conditions for the use of measures on certain scale levels. We construct a source codes oriented software trustworthiness measure based on extensive structure in the measurement theory, present four desirable properties of the measures for software trustworthiness from the standpoint of module, and carry out theoretical validation for the developed measure by use of axiomatic approaches. The conclusion and future work come in the last section
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